Description
Agriculture.- Markham (Gervase) Cheape and Good Husbandry..., third edition, lacking initial leaf (blank but for fleuron), woodcut plan of fish-ponds, lightly browned, small rust-hole to head-line of final leaf touching one letter, Schwerdt-Foyle copy with engraved Schwerdt bookplate and Beeleigh Abbey leather book-label, late 19th century red roan, rubbed and marked, spine and edges a little worn, upper joint split, [STC 17338], printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for Roger Iackson, 1623 § C[lark] (W[illiam]) Decimarum et oblationum tabula. A Tithing Table, A1 with large woodcut of Royal Arms (slightly cropped at fore-edge), a little browned, last few leaves soiled and frayed at fore-edge (repaired), modern morocco-backed cloth, [STC 4323.6], by Thomas Purfoot, 1633, small 4to (2)
Lot 67
Agriculture.- Markham (Gervase) Cheape and Good Husbandry..., third edition, by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for Roger Iackson, 1623 & another on tithes (2)
Hammer Price: £400
Description
Agriculture.- Markham (Gervase) Cheape and Good Husbandry..., third edition, lacking initial leaf (blank but for fleuron), woodcut plan of fish-ponds, lightly browned, small rust-hole to head-line of final leaf touching one letter, Schwerdt-Foyle copy with engraved Schwerdt bookplate and Beeleigh Abbey leather book-label, late 19th century red roan, rubbed and marked, spine and edges a little worn, upper joint split, [STC 17338], printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for Roger Iackson, 1623 § C[lark] (W[illiam]) Decimarum et oblationum tabula. A Tithing Table, A1 with large woodcut of Royal Arms (slightly cropped at fore-edge), a little browned, last few leaves soiled and frayed at fore-edge (repaired), modern morocco-backed cloth, [STC 4323.6], by Thomas Purfoot, 1633, small 4to (2)